Lightroom Tagging Question

Hi,
I've recently started using Lightroom 3 trial version and have started sorting out my photographs. I have a question with respect to tagging feature of lightroom 3 before i go ahead and buy it.
I've stored all my photographs on an external hard drive because i've to frequently travel and share my photographs with other people. my question is:
If i give a tag in Lightroom 3 on my laptop and save it in my external hard drive, if i open in another computer having Lightroom 3, can they also see the tag.???
Thanks in advance,
Regards
Vj.

Welcome to the forum!
There are actually two questions here... one, if you have your photos on an external drive, can another LR see it, and two, will it see my tags?
First, normally your tags are stored in your catalog file. This is the one ending in .LRCAT, such as "Catalog.lrcat". Your tags reside there. You can cause LR to save them with your images, in a file ending in .xmp... turn on write to xmp files and it will also put your tags there.
However, if you expect another LR on another computer to be able to see your catalog, you'd have to copy the catalog file onto your external disk as well! That's where all of your collections, organizations and such get stored, so it would also need to be there for another LR to be able to look at your images the same way you look at them on your computer.
Several ways to go about it: 1) just move your catalog there and run the entire thing off your external disk. Some people do this (I do it when traveling), but it does run slower than it would if you ran it using your internal disk, as it is usually much faster.
2) before you disconnect the external disk, copy your current catalog file onto your external disk. Drawbacks: may forget to do it. Might have to "reconnect" or "find folder" in order to see all of your images. This is especially true of windows machines, as they assign drive letters almost randomly (so it seems, at times!). Each time it assigns a different drive letter, you'd have to reconnect your images. You can stop some of that, by having the OS assign the drive letter specifically, such as R: or something, and then when you first plug it in to a new computer, make it assign that drive letter again before you startup LR. On macs it's not that bad, as the disk almost always has the same name.
When you bring your external drive back to your main computer, you could copy your catalog over again, or simply "Import from Catalog" and turn off the "copy negatives" options, then all of your changes made on the other machine will show up again on your local machine.
Cheers!

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